cigarette butt

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Then he goes off and turns out four new cigarette butts.He needs it, this Norwegian volunteers of the Waffen-SS?…

While it is fun and exciting to find a variety of strange items every year, the more common items collected from shorelines continue to be found in abundance annually.Every year, cigarette butts top the list of finds in Canada, and around the world.…

I replied that I believed all of them were Selover's men.He threw the cigarette butt into the sea and turned back.…Cited from The Mystery, by Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams

Discipline in camp means more than order and dispatch, however, men must understand that they are under discipline when off duty -- that they cannot disregard sanitary measures, eat promiscuously, destroy property, vegetation, or timber and must police the grounds at all times.Papers, cigarette butts, and newspapers, should never be allowed on the ground near camp.Eatables should never be kept in tents to draw vermin.…Cited from Military Instructors Manual, by James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker

Due to their oxygen depriving design, no additional extinguishing media is generally required.Cigarette butts are deposited through a small opening and drop down a long neck into the collection chamber.…

You are expected to maintain some degree of personal cleanliness.Since you cannot pick up that cigarette butt, you have placed an unwelcome task upon our personnel.…Cited from Highways in Hiding, by George Oliver Smith

The muscles of his face twitched -- but it was to express incredulity.His tongue carried the cigarette butt languidly back to the other corner of his mouth.…Cited from Adventures of Jimmie Dale, by F. L. Packard

According to the blurb of Men At Arms, Nobby was "disqualified from the human race for shoving".He always seems to have a cigarette butt about him, normally stowed behind his ear.Samuel Vimes is Nobby's commanding officer, and Sergeant Fred Colon his partner and longtime friend.…

She explained that her dog was very curious.She worried he would smell the cigarette butts and light on fire and then proceed inside and light her house on fire.…

While the United States congress has not attempted to pass a nationwide smoking ban, many states and local governments have enacted their own statutes addressing smoking in public places.Proper disposal of cigarette butts is promoted as both an environmental and health issue.It is estimated 4.5 trillion cigarette butts become litter every year.…

Tobacco and paper are composted in this program.It took six months for the development of the cigarette butt recycling solution.…

The pathologist determined Charlie was alive when the bite marks were inflicted.Erskine's DNA was also found on two cigarette butts found near the bodies.Erskine's public defender never denied Erskine killed the boys, but instead focused on Erskine's car accident when he was 5 years old.…

The sheriff turned in his swivel chair and tossed his cigarette butt through the open window.Cited from The Seventh Man, by Max Brand

Wall mounted cigarette receptacles are manufactured in a variety of shapes, sizes and butt disposal methods.Units with all-metal construction allow disposing of cigarette butts into a container with no other extinguishing media required.Some receptacles utilize a separate butt container for clean-out, while one-piece models simply dump used butts.…

The overall littering rate for cigarette butts is 65%, and in all, tobacco products make up 38% of all roadway litter in the United States.Depending on composition, a cigarette butt can take as short as one month, and up to three years and longer to biodegrade.Cigarette filters made of cellulose acetate do eventually biodegrade, while some environmental groups claim filters containing plastic never fully biodegrade.…

Although the cause of the fire was never determined, one of the managers of the building believed that cigarette butts were the cause for the fire.

Cigarette butts are the most littered item in the world, with 4.5 trillion discarded annually.Estimates on the required time for cigarette butts to break down vary.They range from five years to 400 years for complete degradation.…

They's four cigarette butts, even, to show how long the feller stood here talkin' to the girl.And behind the tree it's all tromped up, where he waited fer her to come, most likely.…Cited from The Lookout Man, by B. M. Bower

Del Pilar's last years saw his descent into extreme poverty.He often missed his meals and during winter, he kept himself warm by smoking discarded cigarette butts he picked up in the streets.Suffering from tuberculosis, del Pilar decided to return to the Philippines.…

The cause of the fire was said to be a cigarette butt or a smouldering match left behind by a construction worker.